Fire companies, ambulance units and police from throughout the Lehigh Valley responded to a jet fuel spill that closed the Pennsylvania Turnpike, from the Quakertown to Mahoning Valley exits, for more than two hours.

A tractor-trailer pulling a tanker filled with jet fuel overturned on a curve on the Northeast Extension of the Turnpike, near the South Whitehall and Upper Macungie Township borders.Approximately 8,500 gallons of jet fuel spilled, causing road closures, detours and evacuations in the affected areas.